The NCAA has mandated all I-A conferences to drop their football championship games effective with the 2008 season in favor of an NCAA-sponsored 16-team playoff after the NCAA negotiated an 11-year, $9.2 Billion TV contract with CBS.

The 12 team conferences in the BCS are very influential in the NCAA. They are not going to make decisions that will eliminate parts of their respective memberships unless that is their agenda. If it was their agenda, their methodology would be per conference and not by some grand design. Power conferences could pull out of the NCAA.
There may one day be near uniformity for 12 team conferences and a sixteen team playoff. It is years away, if then. The playoff could support 12 team arrangements, rather than eliminate it, based on playoff fields being a predominance of championship game representatives. Adding one or two may be easier than shedding three or four. Twelve teams discourages the proliferation of conferences, and fewer conferences yield greater control.
1-AA has a successful model of 16 team playoff. However, 1-A is not going to let go of lucrative bowls.
Is Notre Dame still going to be an entity of "one" while everyone else must battle it out the conference route, regardless if they are a standard and uniform 8, 9, or 12?

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